Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast.
Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.
One of my chief regrets during my recent years in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me.
When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.